Dr Soroosh Sharifi BSc, MSc, PhD

Lecturer in Water Engineering

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About

Dr Sharifi is a Lecturer in Water Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham. In the last 10 years, he has worked on several research projects in the areas of Hydrology, Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering.

Dr Sharifi’s primary research interests lie in the area of river and environmental hydraulics, rainfall-runoff modelling, multi-objective optimization and inverse modelling. He is particularly interested in how physical and data modeling can be coupled to better understand the underlying physics of hydro-environmental processes. A great deal of his research is focused on the application of machine learning and evolutionary computation methods in water sciences.

Qualifications

Lecturer in Water Engineering

PhD in Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, 2009

MSc in Hydraulic Structures, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, 2006

BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, 2003

Biography

Dr Sharifi holds a BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2003) and an MSc in Hydraulic Structures (2003) from Ferdowsi University of Masshhad. His PhD in Civil Engineering was undertaken at the University of Birmingham researching Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Open Channel Flow (2009). After completing his PhD studies he moved to the United States. Between 2010-13, Dr Sharifi was a post-doctoral scholar at the Catholic University of America, where he was working on several water and environment-related research projects. In September 2013 he returned to the University of Birmingham as a Lecturer in Civil Engineering.

In the last 10 years, Dr Sharifi has been conducting research on various topics in the field of Water and Environmental Engineering. He is interested in the following topics:

Sharifi, S., Hosseini, S.M. (2011) Methodology for identifying the best equations for estimating the time of concentration of watersheds in a particular region, ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering,137(11): 712-719, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.0000373